1. How does Wiesel weave the importance of the museum into his speech?
2. How does Wiesel use questions effectively? What purpose do they serve?
3. How does he use stories? What purpose do they serve?
4. Museums preserve artifacts about the past. How does Wiesel make his speech relevant to the people in the present and the future?
5. How does he deal wirh horrifying facts and details? How do these facts and details affect the speech?
6. Based on the speech, what would you say this museum stands for? What will it be a symbol of for years to come?
AFTER YOU'VE READ THE SPEECH, now apply these same questions to your own Dedication speech. Your goal is to weave facts and emotions together, talking about how people and events critically impacted our lives now and in the future. Do you do that? Or do you simply state factual information. In your typed copy of your speech, underline the facts, then highlight the emotional impact those events have. If you don't have the same amount of highlights as you do underlines, then you need to connect emotionally to your audience.
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Dedication of the Holocaust Museum
1. How does Wiesel weave the importance of the museum into his speech?
2. How does Wiesel use questions effectively? What purpose do they serve?
3. How does he use stories? What purpose do they serve?
4. Museums preserve artifacts about the past. How does Wiesel make his speech relevant to the people in the present and the future?
5. How does he deal wirh horrifying facts and details? How do these facts and details affect the speech?
6. Based on the speech, what would you say this museum stands for? What will it be a symbol of for years to come?
AFTER YOU'VE READ THE SPEECH, now apply these same questions to your own Dedication speech. Your goal is to weave facts and emotions together, talking about how people and events critically impacted our lives now and in the future. Do you do that? Or do you simply state factual information. In your typed copy of your speech, underline the facts, then highlight the emotional impact those events have. If you don't have the same amount of highlights as you do underlines, then you need to connect emotionally to your audience.
REVISE YOUR SPEECH NOW using these tools to add to it.